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Don't blame me for China bashing hor..after all the crap with tainted milk, toxic paint and allegedly cover-ups so as to look good for the Olympics..they really deserved to be bashed..

 

China begins investigation of tainted eggs: state media

 

BEIJING (AFP) - - Officials in northeast China said Wednesday they were looking into reports that eggs from a local company were tainted with the toxic chemical melamine, vowing "severe punishment", state media reported.

 

The government of Dalian, a major port city, said in a notice that contaminated eggs discovered in Hong Kong were produced by a local company on September 6, the Xinhua news agency said.

 

Xinhua did not name the company, but earlier reports have identified it as the Hanwei Group, one of China's top egg producers.

 

The discovery of the tainted eggs has led to mounting fears that melamine, which has killed four babies and sickened 53,000, may have contaminated a larger share of China's food supply than previously thought.

 

So far melamine has been discovered only in dairy products or products containing dairy ingredients.

 

US retail giant Wal-Mart said Tuesday it had pulled Hanwei's eggs from its shelves in China, emphasising this was a precautionary measure and that products from Hanwei inside the country had not yet been found to be contaminated.

 

Hong Kong health authorities reported over the weekend that they had found melamine in eggs produced by the Hanwei Group.

 

"Over the past few days, we pulled this brand of eggs off shelves in all our outlets in China," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mu Mingming told AFP.

 

Wal-Mart's move was the first major recall of eggs in mainland China over melamine fears, but Mu emphasised this was a precautionary measure and that the products from the Hanwei group had not yet been found to be contaminated.

 

Most other major supermarket chains in China, including France's Carrefour, said they had issued no such recall.

 

Four babies died of kidney failure and 53,000 fell ill in China this year after drinking milk or consuming dairy products laced with melamine.

 

Source: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20081029/twl-...on-920821f.html

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Second batch of Chinese eggs in Hong Kong tainted

 

HONG KONG - A second batch of Chinese eggs has been found to contain an excessive amount of the industrial chemical melamine, the Hong Kong government said, as a new food safety problem on the mainland expanded.

 

Melamine was recently detected in Chinese dairy products blamed for sickening 54,000 children and linked to the deaths of four infants. More than 3,600 children remain sick, health officials say.

 

The same problem surfaced in Chinese eggs over the weekend when tests by the Hong Kong government found the chemical in egg imports from the mainland.

 

The latest batch of eggs found to be tainted, taken from a local restaurant, were processed by Jingshan Pengchang Agricultural Product Co. in China's central Hubei province, the Hong Kong government said in a statement late Tuesday.

 

The eggs contained melamine with a concentration of 2.9 parts per million. The legal limit for melamine in foodstuffs in Hong Kong is 2.5 parts per million, the government statement said.

 

Calls to a company official listed on the Web site of Jingshan Pengchang Agricultural Product Co. went unanswered.

 

An earlier batch of eggs, produced by China's Dalian Hanwei Enterprise Group in the northeastern port city Dalian, was found to contain 4.7 ppm of melamine.

 

Commenting on that batch, Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health York Chow said the melamine may have come from chicken feed given to the chickens that laid the eggs.

 

A Chinese agricultural official, Wang Zhicai, was quoted as echoing that theory in the Beijing News newspaper on Tuesday. Wang reportedly said melamine is not an animal feed additive and is banned from being mixed in.

 

In the scandal involving dairy products, authorities say middlemen apparently added melamine to milk they collected from farmers to sell to large dairy companies. The suppliers are accused of watering down the milk and then adding the nitrogen-rich chemical to make it seem higher in protein when tested.

 

Melamine is used in the manufacturing of plastics, fertilizer, paint and adhesives. Health experts say ingesting a small amount poses no danger, but in larger doses, the chemical can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure. Infants are particularly vulnerable.

 

A 10-kilogram (22-pound) child would have to eat 24 of the eggs and a 60-kilogram (132-pound) adult 283 eggs to reach their daily tolerable intake of melamine, the Hong Kong government said.

 

Source: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20081029/tap-a...gs-d3b07b8.html

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And our AVA better don't be complacent..

 

AVA says Singapore does not import eggs from China

 

SINGAPORE: The Agri

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no leh..the k1ng will heil MIC products..esp his A168..

 

wonder does his ADM Charger also MIC? or it's a ADN branded fake?

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I thought Poisoned eggs already been reported long ago. This was even before the toxic milk incident. Poisoned China salted eggs were banned here and imported China eggs were actually destroyed.

 

My conclusion is, the China men never seem to learn from experience. Perhaps to them, life is cheap and profit comes 1st.

 

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